| Artefact ID | 141 |
| TM ID | TM 34155 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 21 (Qaṣr al-Miqīṣba) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Ceramic |
| Writing medium | Ostracon |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | O.Bahria 7; SB XX 14890: Letter from Herakleides to Germanos. Herakleides is asking his "lord brother" Germanos not to bother Sophia with money issue. Note the Christian onomastics: Sophia and Abraam son of Makarios. |
| Selection criteria | - |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. Also, this text is part of a lot (O.Bahria 3, 6, 7 and 10) of which one mentions year 51, that is, according to the Oxyrhynchite era, the year 374/375 (see Wagner 1987: 87 and O.Bahria 6). |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | This ostracon was uncovered by A. Fakhry during the excavation of the brick buildings around the temple of Alexander the Great (Fakhry 1950: 47 and pl. XXVIIIb, and Wagner 1987: 86). |
| Accession number | Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JdE IX 25/7/48/7 |
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